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  • longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots or formed by coinage...
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  • cancelled". BBC News. 18 December 2017. Orin Hargraves (2003). Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780195157048...
    133 KB (15,571 words) - 12:16, 8 June 2024
  • Fine Gael (/ˌfiːnə ˈɡeɪl, ˌfɪn-/ FEEN-nə GAYL, FIN-, Irish: [ˌfʲɪnʲə ˈɡeːl̪ˠ]; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish" is a liberal-conservative and...
    103 KB (8,075 words) - 16:29, 16 June 2024
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    for betrayal. The evangelist comments in John 12:5–6 that Judas spoke fine words about giving money to the poor, but the reality was "not that he cared...
    81 KB (9,408 words) - 12:37, 16 June 2024
  • University Press. ISBN 0-521-37993-8. Hargraves, Orin (2003). Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515704-4...
    103 KB (12,928 words) - 16:09, 14 June 2024
  • starve a fever[a] Fight fire with fire[a] Fine feathers make fine birds Finders keepers (losers weepers)[a] Fine words butter no parsnips[a] First come, first...
    55 KB (6,710 words) - 16:51, 17 June 2024
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    In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art...
    44 KB (4,999 words) - 10:49, 13 June 2024
  • 22 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017. Orin Hargraves (2003). Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions: Making Sense of Transatlantic English. Oxford...
    10 KB (1,026 words) - 11:05, 7 April 2024
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    Word play (redirect from Play on words)
    I'm living in it Rapper Milo uses a play on words in his verse on "True Nen" Keep any heat by the fine China dinner set Your man's caught the chill and...
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    States (14 September 1901), dying after being shot on 6 September "My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." — Abdur Rahman...
    324 KB (35,634 words) - 19:58, 15 June 2024
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    The seven dirty words are seven English-language curse words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say...
    21 KB (2,367 words) - 08:18, 28 May 2024
  • The Words is a 2012 American mystery romantic drama film, written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal in their directorial debut. It stars...
    17 KB (1,776 words) - 13:42, 20 September 2023
  • This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between...
    317 KB (336 words) - 06:19, 16 April 2024
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    Fighting words are spoken words directed to the person of the hearer which would have a tendency to cause acts of violence by the person to whom, individually...
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    Sylvia Fine Kaye (August 29, 1913 – October 28, 1991) was an American lyricist, composer, and producer. Many of her compositions and productions were performed...
    15 KB (1,349 words) - 19:04, 13 April 2024
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    manipulations over her postulated inheritance, or to recognise him beneath his fine words as a domestic tyrant, Catherine turns to Gothic fantasy to explain her...
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    New York Herald Tribune described his address as "fine words, fitting words, at times inspiring words". Soon after his address, Johnson succeeded in getting...
    33 KB (3,577 words) - 15:17, 18 May 2024
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    "Ça ira" ([sa i.ʁa]; French: "It'll be fine") is an emblematic song of the French Revolution, first heard in May 1790. It underwent several changes in...
    13 KB (1,200 words) - 16:31, 12 June 2024
  • Da capo (redirect from Da capo al fine)
    Look up da capo, d.c. al coda, D.C. al fine, or fine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Da capo (/dɑː ˈkɑːpoʊ/ dah KAH-poh, US also /də -/ də -⁠, Italian:...
    4 KB (453 words) - 08:33, 4 October 2023
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    Profanity (redirect from Swear words)
    Profanity involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain...
    50 KB (6,141 words) - 16:56, 1 June 2024
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